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| .\" Authors: Andrew Dudman |
| .\" Lasse Collin |
| .\" |
| .\" This file has been put into the public domain. |
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| .\" (Note that this file is not based on gzip's zless.1.) |
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| .TH XZLESS 1 "2010-09-27" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils" |
| .SH NAME |
| xzless, lzless \- view xz or lzma compressed (text) files |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B xzless |
| .RI [ file ...] |
| .br |
| .B lzless |
| .RI [ file ...] |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .B xzless |
| is a filter that displays text from compressed files to a terminal. |
| It works on files compressed with |
| .BR xz (1) |
| or |
| .BR lzma (1). |
| If no |
| .I files |
| are given, |
| .B xzless |
| reads from standard input. |
| .PP |
| .B xzless |
| uses |
| .BR less (1) |
| to present its output. |
| Unlike |
| .BR xzmore , |
| its choice of pager cannot be altered by |
| setting an environment variable. |
| Commands are based on both |
| .BR more (1) |
| and |
| .BR vi (1) |
| and allow back and forth movement and searching. |
| See the |
| .BR less (1) |
| manual for more information. |
| .PP |
| The command named |
| .B lzless |
| is provided for backward compatibility with LZMA Utils. |
| .SH ENVIRONMENT |
| .TP |
| .B LESSMETACHARS |
| A list of characters special to the shell. |
| Set by |
| .B xzless |
| unless it is already set in the environment. |
| .TP |
| .B LESSOPEN |
| Set to a command line to invoke the |
| .BR xz (1) |
| decompressor for preprocessing the input files to |
| .BR less (1). |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| .BR less (1), |
| .BR xz (1), |
| .BR xzmore (1), |
| .BR zless (1) |
